Testing: Selenium: Building ZimbraSelenium

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General Information

See Building Zimbra.
See Selenium Overview.

Downloading the Code

Downloading the Prerequisites

The zm-selenium project depends on the following Zimbra projects:

  1. zimbra-package-stub
  2. zm-zcs
  3. zm-mailbox
  4. zm-web-client
  5. zm-zimlets

Clone these prerequisites from github in /root/git directory as an example:

cd /root/git
git clone https://github.com/Zimbra/zimbra-package-stub.git
git clone https://github.com/Zimbra/zm-zcs.git
git clone https://github.com/Zimbra/zm-mailbox.git
git clone https://github.com/Zimbra/zm-web-client.git
git clone https://github.com/Zimbra/zm-zimlets.git

Downloading zm-selenium

Clone zm-selenium from github in same folder:

git clone https://github.com/Zimbra/zm-selenium.git

Building ZimbraSelenium using Eclipse

Java

ZimbraSelenium requires java 1.6. Download and install java.

Eclipse

Download and install eclipse IDE.

Build the Code

Use the following steps to build the code:

  1. Create new eclipse workspace
    1. Open eclipse
    2. Create new workspace in /home/public/p4/BRANCH , where BRANCH is the release branch.
  2. Add all projects to eclipse
    1. Select File->New->Project->Java Project
    2. For "Project Name", enter ZimbraSelenium
    3. Complete these same steps for all the dependency projects (i.e. ZimbraCommon, ZimbraServer, etc.)
  3. Build ZimbraSelenium
    1. Expand the ZimbraSelenium project
    2. Select build.xml, right click, select "Run As"->"Ant Build"

The output in the console should display:

...
     [copy] Copying 3 files to C:\home\public\p4\main\ZimbraServer\build\attrs-src
set-buildinfo-vars:
     [echo] Version: 6.0.2_BETA1_1111 Date: 20100721-1203
do-generate-ldap-config:
    [javac] Compiling 1 source file to C:\home\public\p4\main\ZimbraSelenium\build\classes
jar:
      [jar] Building jar: C:\home\public\p4\main\ZimbraSelenium\build\dist\zimbra-6.0.0\lib\zimbraselenium.jar
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 19 seconds

Troubleshooting

Verified Against: unknown Date Created: 11/7/2007
Article ID: https://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=Testing:_Selenium:_Building_ZimbraSelenium Date Modified: 2017-05-25



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